AVG8 eating up all ram and swap space

[Mac_Attack18]

I don't remember installing avg. My computer is ungodly slow, it took 25 mins to get htop to start. when my PC boots up it starts up 2 terminals add remove programs and chrome. idk why it is doing this and idk how avg got on here. I just want to get it off I had the same problem on XP with avg eating up all my ram and such. so i uninstalled it. but i dont know how or if i can uninstall avg with my pc this slow.

oh btw when i started htop avg had like 15 things in there using anywhere from 20 to 5 % of ram and swap. i only have 512 mb. Could this be a virus. it did start right after i enabled ssh. anyway how can i get rid of it? im using xubuntu.

my cd drive in my laptop is dead but im thinking I could install ubuntu from my usb drive and then just download xfce again. I'm think that would be easier then dealing with avg.

Has anyone heard of this?

[cybergsus]

Did you try your synaptic package manager?
ther you must be able to deinstall.

hope it helped

[reed9]

It's suspicious that you didn't explicitly install this. AVG is not available in the normal Ubuntu repositories, for one.

Boot into recovery mode and drop to a root shell prompt.

This shows you how to do that, obviously ignoring the part about resetting your password.
How to reset your password in Ubuntu

From there, find the package. I assume it's avg something or other

dpkg -l | grep avg

Remove the package once found

sudo apt-get remove --purge <name of package>

And reboot

sudo reboot

[reed9]

my cd drive in my laptop is dead but im thinking I could install ubuntu from my usb drive and then just download xfce again. I'm think that would be easier then dealing with avg.

And if you choose to go this route, why not use Xubuntu right off the bat?

[Mac_Attack18]

I don't know the root password. I can't get in its starting to look like im going to have to reformat.

EDIT

when i typed in the grep thing i got this

ii avg85fix 8.5.292 AVG Anti-virus for linux

i have tried the avg85fix and 8.5.292 and i can't get rid of it it says package not found.

[reed9]

Ubuntu doesn't set a root password by default. Did you try your user password?

Also, this was just to avoid starting the desktop, and with it, presumably AVG.

From the Ubuntu login screen, hit CTRL+ALT+F1, which should drop you to a console prompt. Log in from there and do the same as far as finding and removing AVG.

[Mac_Attack18]

yea i tried my root password ill worry about that later read the edit

whatever this avg thing is its running as root

[cybergsus]

Hi
to avoid that you give a root password choose just to give new rights:
sudo chown username /path/ to/file/
don't forget to change back to root
hop it could help